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To this program’s previous release on Albany containing Symphonies Nos. 5, 7, and 8, First Edition adds a gutsy, very well recorded (in mono) version
Henry Cowell remains arguably the most shamefully neglected major American composer. All the usual charges are leveled against him: he was stylistically eclectic, his music
Those with an acquired taste for angry, complex, 12-tone-sounding social protest music will find William Kraft’s Contextures II: The Final Beast (1985-1986) a superior specimen.
The fact that I am going to move quickly over Kentucky Spring and the Fifth Symphony in order to discuss Roy Harris’ Violin Concerto in
Ernst Toch (1887-1964) was one of many established Viennese composers who found work in Hollywood after fleeing the Nazi Anschluss. He was primarily an orchestrator
This Alvin Singleton collection originally was released on Nonesuch in 1989. Singleton composes in more or less typical late-20th-century style that skirts the edges of
Louisville is back! Hallelujah! In the ensuing years some of the music presented here has been re-recorded (by Leonard Slatkin for RCA, so don’t count
Roger Sessions was an amazing composer: difficult to play, difficult to listen to, but incapable of writing a bad note. From whatever period, his music
This, more than the other four titles in Louisville’s initial re-launch (devoted to Corigliano, Hovhaness, and Cowell), is a release for specialists. In the first
The music of Alan Hovhaness excites strong opinions pro and con. His detractors usually start with the generic argument that because he was so prolific,
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